Kissinger, giant of statecraft, molded post-war US history

Brilliant, abrasive and ruthlessly ambitious, Henry Kissinger towered over post-World War II US foreign policy like no one else and shaped a fateful new course for the world's relationship with China.In a 2001 book, "The Trial of Henry Kissinger," writer Christopher Hitchens made a case that he should be prosecuted for war crimes and crimes against humanity.